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Fintech for Women: Scaling the Financial Inclusion Pyramid in Egypt

Feb 05, 2019

In a bid to accelerate women’s financial inclusion in MENA, the region with the lowest female economic participation in the world, the DFID-funded Arab Women’s Enterprise Fund (AWEF) led a study to understand the scope for Digital Financial Services (DFS) in Egypt, map key constraints to women’s financial inclusion and identify opportunities to transform the livelihoods of low-income Egyptian women through improved access to finance. This blog highlights the main findings of this study, by 1) setting the scene on the gender finance landscape in Egypt; 2) mapping key stakeholders in the women’s financial inclusion ecosystem; 3) identifying main constraints to female access to, and control over, financial resources and, last but not least; 4) presenting AWEF’s strategy to democratize financial services for poor women in Egypt.